PAMELACOBURN · REGINAKLEPPER · FRANZHAWLATAPAULKUHN · GEOFFREYPARSONS · WDRRUNDFUNKCHOR KÖLNWDRRUNDFUNKORCHESTER KÖLNHELMUTHFROSCHAUER · HEINZGEESE
‘I am an EU singer’, Hermann Prey always said about himself. However, by that he did not mean so much his citizenship of a country of the European Union as the fact that he felt at home in the fields of ‘E’ and ‘U’, i.e. in ‘serious’ and entertainment music alike. For Prey, this distinction never existed, but only the issue of the quality of music, and he found this not only in the opera and Lied, but also in the operetta, the musical and the well-made hit. For forty-six years, from the time of his first commitment in Wisebaden in 1952 onwards, Prey always convinced his audience: in opera, art and folksong, operetta and musical alike. This collection of 5CDs shows us his fascinating wide range of repertoire and interpretation.

In the framework of Capriccio’s Kurt Weill edition the present second CD-Box now offers a collection of the prestigious recordings of well known and mostly unknown stage works of the composer. Beside the complete recording of Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny we also included some rarities like his first comical opera The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken and in the spirit of Offenbach, witty and with a socio-political background, composed operetta Der Kuhhandel (Sheady Dealing).

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Alfred Schnittke The Film Music Edition

The story of an unknown actor · The Commissar · The Fairytale oft he Wanderings · Clowns and Children ... RUNDFUNK-SINFONIEORCHESTER BERLIN · FRANK STROBEL

4CD-Box · C7196
PC: PC04 (Special Price)
UPC: 845221071961

CD 1Die Geschichte von einem unbekannten SchauspielerThe story of an unknown actor(Alexander Sarchi / Mosfilm 1976)Die Kommissarin / The Commissar(Alexander Askoldow / Mosfilm 1967/87)CD 2 Clowns und Kinder / Clowns and Children(Alexander Mitta, Mosfilm 1976)Der Walzer / The Waltz(Viktor Titow / Mosfilm 1969)Die Glasharmonika / The Glass Harmonica(Andrei Khrzhanovsky, 1968)Der Aufstieg / The Ascent(Larissa Schepitko / Mosfilm 1976)CD 3 Das Märchen der Wanderungen / The Fairytale oft he Wanderings(Alexander Mitta, Mosfilm 1982/83)Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Alexander Sguridi / ZentrNaútschFilm, 1976)CD 4 Sport, Sport, Sport(Elem Klimow, Mosfilm 1970) / Die Abenteuer eines Zahnarztes / The adventures of a dentist(Elem Klimow, Mosfilm 1965) RUNDFUNK-SINFONIEORCHESTERBERLIN · FRANKSTROBEL
Alfred Schnittke as a composer of film music – that is a fact well known to anyone who has ever been concerned with Alfred Schnittke. However, only very few people are familiar with his actual work in the film music genre. This is all the more surprising since on the one hand, Alfred Schnittke wrote more than 60 film scores during the years between 1961 and 1984, and on the other hand, his poly-stylistic techniques found a nearly perfect equivalent in film. Since Alfred Schnittke suffered from the artistic regimentations like many contemporary composers in the USSR, and his works could often only be performed under difficult circumstances, his work for the film to a large extent contributed to his livelihood.